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2013 Spring Newsletter

Kresge Physical Sciences Library
& Cook Mathematics Collection

Quarterly Newsletter

This is a quarterly electronic newsletter to update you on what’s happening in your Library! Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions or suggestions!

Looking back…

Gear Up! was held in several locations (Fairchild Tower, MacLean, Life Sciences Center, and Baker Hall) and the turnout was great!

A new collaborative authoring tool, Authorea, was featured in a webinar in Kresge on Jan. 21st. We are looking into a site license that will allow Dartmouth authors to store a greater number of private articles in Authorea accounts.

CV/Resume Writing in LaTeX session took place on February 4 in Kresge and was a fun, interactive tips-sharing session. Each participant left with ideas on how to improve his CV or resume and using LaTeX to create the layout he was looking for.

Altmetrics were the topic of an ACS webinar viewed in Kresge on Feb. 20th.

In the Winter term, Shirley Zhao worked with two Writing 5 classes and Prof Wegner’s Astronomy 25 class.

Jane Quigley worked with chemistry graduate student Xin Su, who gave a presentation on using Reaxys to the Chem 262 seminar. View the slides on the Chemistry Research Guide, on the Tutorials & Tips tab

Spring Events

Spring Staffing and Hours

This term Kresge will be open Monday-Thursday 8am-1am, Friday 8am-8pm, Saturday 11am-10pm, and Sunday 11am-1am.

Ann Perbohner is on leave for 6-8 weeks and in the interim, Shirley Zhao will be managing the mathematics and computer science collections and supporting the information and teaching needs of the respective departments. Veneda Gabourel, a night supervisor at Baker-Berry Library, will be helping us out with Saturday staffing.